{"id":4266,"date":"2012-11-29T00:55:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T08:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2012-11-29T08:50:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T16:50:33","slug":"the-bickert-tribute-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/11\/the-bickert-tribute-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bickert Tribute Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bickert-facing-right-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bickert-facing-right-.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bickert facing right\" width=\"120\" height=\"108\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4267\" \/><\/a>Word from Canada is that the CBC program honoring Ed Bickert is online and available for listening. Bickert celebrates his 80th birthday today. The venerable guitarist is a veteran of decades with Rob McConnell, Moe Kauffman, Phil Nimmons,  Paul Desmond and hundreds of studio hours. For details about his career&#151;and videos, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/11\/up-north-theyre-celebrating-ed-bickert.html\"target=\"_blank\">this <em>Rifftides<\/em> post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a paragraph from the page that contains the link to the broadcast:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bickert could \u00e2\u20ac\u0153combine in his solos the logic of a mathematician and the grace of an angel,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Jack Batten said in the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> in 1976. And according to bassist Steve Wallace, who frequently played with Bickert, he served as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aesthetic compass and edit button on the Canadian jazz scene, a kind of jazz bullshit antidote.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bickert retired a few years ago and no longer plays. Many of his admiring fellow musicians assembled to pay tribute to him.To hear the concert, <a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/#\/blogs\/2012\/11\/A-tribute-to-jazz-legend-Ed-Bickert\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a> and click on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Listen to Ed Bickert At 80: A Jazz Celebration.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Thanks again to Ted O&#8217;Reilly for keeping us up to date on this important occasion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word from Canada is that the CBC program honoring Ed Bickert is online and available for listening. Bickert celebrates his 80th birthday today. The venerable guitarist is a veteran of decades with Rob McConnell, Moe Kauffman, Phil Nimmons, Paul Desmond and hundreds of studio hours. For details about his career&#151;and videos, see this Rifftides post. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}